Makoto is a squirrel beastkin very well known and liked by friends and acquaintences for her cheerful and energetic personality. She is one of Noel and Tsubaki's best friends, who she met during her enrollment in the Military Academy. After graduating, Makoto once worked for the NOL's Intelligence Division under Hazama. However, when she eventually learns the truth behind NOL, Makoto leaves the organization, setting out to find her best friend Noel after finding out about the danger she is in.

Makoto's Impact Drive allows Makoto to charge up her punches, dramatically increasing their strength. When charged to their maximum level, the properties of her moves will change, often giving them a lot more untech time or better frame advantage in other cases. There have been a few changes made to the charging mechanic in it's transition from the main BlazBlue series though. The charging on Makoto's Impact drive now only has 2 different levels that it can fall into instead of 3.

Makoto's best poke. It already has decent range on its own but combine the fact that it moves you forward with the momentum of a dash and this button will hit further than it looks at first glance. In pressure, you can also aim to frame trap with this by delay canceling into it from 2A stagger pressure. Because it moves Makoto forward, it's best to do this when you are starting to get pushed out further from 2A range when an opponent will most expect an attempt to reset pressure and try to mash or jump out.

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Moves Makoto forward

Mostly used to confirm 5A pokes or frame traps. While negative, it's not negative enough to get punished on block, making it a safe spot to end pressure if you need to or a good place to frame trap an opponent thinking they can take their turn. It also doesn't have too much recovery on whiff either so you don't have to worry about getting punished by pushblock > stuff too much.

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Mostly just used in combos. Unlike 5AA, it's unsafe enough on block to get punished so avoid ending your blockstring on this. Always cancel into something else instead.

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Has knockback. Level 2 has even further knockback.

Good for partner combos and ending combos in the corner.

Makoto's old 5D drive. If you're doing a partner combo, you can use your partner to combo after this and do a combo that should do about 7.5-7.8k. If you don't have an assist that goes far, you'll have to time your assist to hit just before the opponent gets blown away.

You can also use this as a combo ender in the corner. You'll get less damage than doing an air route but you'll also be able to more comfortably handle forward techs.

For Auto Combo usage, use the Level 2 version if you want to give yourself some breathing room before raw tagging out.

Because the head invuln kicks in pretty early, Makoto's 5B is a very reliable Anti-Air to use on reaction to punish attempts to jump in on her. It's also capable of launching grounded opponents on hit, allowing her to extend her combos for good damage, even without the help of a partner.

This can reverse beat into 5A.

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Follow-up to 5B. Slams the opponent onto the ground.

Mostly used in combos. The downward hitting strike makes it possible to combo into Infinite Rush and it's followups. If you're comboing into this from linking 5B on an airborne opponent, make sure you link the 5B when the opponent is lower to the ground or else this 5BB will whiff and they'll drop out of the combo. This move can also reliably cancel into Sirius Jolt (236C) for a wall bounce

This is Makoto's main jump in button so be sure to take the time to go in training mode and learn the spacing for a well spaced IAD j.A. You'll also be using this a lot as a falling button to whiff punish a lot of your opponent's ground pokes when you jump over them.

On an air to air Counter Hit, it has enough untech time to land and convert it into a combo

A really good air to air normal. It's one of the few air normals in the game that has a hitbox above the character, making it really good at hitting people higher up in the air than Makoto. If you're having trouble with a character trying to do stuff at super jump height, try using a rising j.B to hit them out of it.

During the startup of j.C, Makoto will be lifted upwards before she comes down on the opponent. This lift upwards can be very useful for dodging well timed anti-airs from your opponent and then punish their recovery.

A very important part of Makoto's neutral game. Makoto places a projectile orb in front of her. The projectile is multi hitting and active for a good amount of time, allowing it to hit people out of both ground and air approaches, unless they use a very disjointed normal. Strategically using to stop approaches is going to force your opponent to be more cautious and slow down the pace of their approach, allowing you to play your spacing and footsies game more comfortbaly. At the same time, the multiple projectile hits are good for negating lower level projectiles and protecting Makoto and can force the not full fledged space control characters to have to approach Makoto instead of trying to keep your out.

As stated above, this move is extremely good for combo extension and overall wallbang styling shenanigans, but it can also be used as a safe way to end a blockstring. This move pushes most enemy characters out of range of their own normals on block and could be used as a way to bait out button presses for you to punish with a reaching assist such as Noel's 6P, Es' 6P, or Gordeau's 5P. As far as this move is considered, either they block it low because they know what to do against Makoto (never block high against a Makoto main) or they screw up and block high, in which case you get a free combo.

The extra skill version of Cosmic Ray is the old Level G Cosmic Ray from BlazBlue. It's plus on block like Level 2 Cosmic Ray but it's startup is a lot faster compared to Level 2 Cosmic Ray since there's no charge time. When well spaced, it's a great way to close the gap in neutral. On hit, you can link 5A to convert it into a full combo. On block, you can start pressure instead.

Much like the other versions of Cosmic Ray, EX Cosmic Ray is vulnerable to people jumping so make sure to time this for when your opponent is playing more grounded or when they're landing from jumping around.

Good for extending combos against grounded and low to the ground airborne opponents

Final punch launches on hit

Her best assist. Infinite Rush does multiple hits on block or whiff, moves Makoto forward as she does it and travels 80% of the screen. These are really good for multiple reasons. In neutral, the multiple hits are very good for either confirming into a combo or locking down an opponent so you can dash up and starter pressure, especially when used in combination with tactics your point character can use.

In pressure, the multiple hits are useful for locking down an opponent to allow you to go for one good mixup. Because Makoto moves forward such a great distance during the skill, it's both resilient against pushblock and good for keeping an opponent locked down so you can dash back in after being pushblocked out. Unlike other lockdown assists like Jin 6P or Chie and Kanji's 4P, it doesn't pushback the opponent when they pushblock it midscreen either so it's pretty useful anywhere on the screen for your pressure.

It's also nice for combos since the final punch of Infinite Rush is untechable until the opponent touches ground. Combined with the multiple hits, you'll have plenty of time to follow up your combo with whatever you desire. However, it only hits closer to the ground so keep that in mind. For opponents that are more airborne when you need to extend your combo, consider doing Makoto 4P instead.